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1 * ,ma THE CUBAN REVOLUTION! Landing of Lopes, and the patriots— Two battles fought ’/ Lopei victorious!! We are indebted to ihe Charleston Courier for the subjoined despatches, fonnuning the important intelligence from the /stand of Cuba. As to its re liability, we venture no opinion. Hat iug been several times deceived in regard to the news from that quarter, we look upon all rumors with suspicion. We hopes however, (or tin* best, and would be glad to see the island both free anil in dependent: Courier Office £ Charleston , Aug. 20—10 -12 AM. j . New Orleans. Aug. 19.—An arrival at this port brings dates from Havantta to the 7th inst. Private letters say that the cause of the patriots is triumph ant. Four l lion saner Spanish troops'have gone over to the patriots, and much dis satisfaction exists among the Government troops. Courier Ojffiee. ) Ckarlevton, Aug. 20—12. 15 P.M. \ The schooner Zephyr arrived here this morning from Maiaozas, which place she left on the 6lh inst. Gen. Lopez, with his troops, landed at Bahia Honda, fifty miles the westward of Havanna, or. tiie I4th inst. Courier Ojffiee. > Charleston , Avg. 20—1. 40 P. At. $ The Pampero , after landing Lopez and his troops, sailed northward- The troops proceeded into the interior forth with. Gn the reception of the intelli gence, the authorities despatched a large steamer full of sharp shooters to cot them off. The Spamliurd* at Matanzas think the invaders would soon he captured and shot. It was reported at Matanzas that Lopez had only four hundred men with him. *v | Still Later! Savannah, Angp,,a2— -2 To the Editors Journal and Messen ger : —Gen Lopez has fought two battles —successful in both—and proceeded o n his march. Troops were sent from Ha vana to Bahia Honda to attack Lopez. Accounts that appear to be authentic bv Vixen, at Prnsencola, state that one whole Spanish regiment had gone over to Lo pez. The people were rising in many quarters. Accounts of Spanish loss in the two battles, vary from two to eiuht hundred. Patriot loss not stated—Spaniards made fifty-one prisoners, among them Critten den of Kentnckv. Spaniards lost one General of Marines—one Commodore. It is said, that Lopez reneves daily lurge accessions of force. Fifty-eight Cuban deserters were taken and shot. A Span ish Colonel, aid to Captain General was also shot. Steamer Union was wrecked and totally lost. Pixerro is a ground atone of die Qnintail Bays. A despateh this instant recieved from New Orleans direct, slates that there is a great mob in New Oileans. The Spanish Consul was sotnpclled to give the names of fifty-one murdered A mericans which he had through his letters. The Office of the Spanish paper and three Spanish Coffee House were deslrnyd.— The Military were called out.-- Savan nah Republian. PtCATi'rrr, Ofvick, 1 New Orleans, Aug. 51 —l2 M. 1 The Umpire. City has arrived. Ln|iix had j tw.r battles and caine oft” victorious in tuuli. i llis force killed several hundred Spanish j troops. One entire Spanish legiuieni joined Genl. Lopez. Lopez's force is gaining front twelve to fifteen hundred men daily. <hi ihe night of the I4tli, over or.e hundred left Ilavannah to join the invaders. FROM TI IK UNION. ‘ Air. Editor: — l have read mam ar gument-’, and heard many reasons assign- j ed, in support of the proposition that a 1 single Suite has not the right of separate secetti m from the Confederacy o! Stairs; but there is one 1 have not \et heard ad vanced against the doctrine contended for by those who hold the affirmative of; the issue, which, to my mind, is conclu sive against the existence of any stub right, at least under the Constitution.— This instrument declares, (Art. 7ili) that “The ratification of the Convention of nine Slates shall he sufficient for the es tablishment ol this Constitution between the Slates so ratifying the same.*’ /1 i> n principle in law, than which none is more firmly established by ihe books, that it requires the same power to undo that it takes to do a tiling—it requires the same legislative force or power lo re peal or abrogate a law that it takes to make or establish one. I speak o| the !<• gal hearing of the question. Now how many States, or r.uher, the ratification of Conventions ol how many States were ‘sufficient’ to .establish’ the Constitution, or form the Union which is the same tiling/ Was the ratification of the Con vention of one State ‘Sufficient?* No. Was the ratification of five States ‘suffi. cient?’ No. How many States then did it take to establish die Constitution and form the Union? It took Niue to do it. Now, the question is, ran tile Conventions of any less than nine, or a majority of the States undo or abolish what it Conventions of nine , States, out of the original thirteen to do or establish ? A CAROLS ANT 1 StoRJD ~lt commenced ‘blowing- n ’ gdle of wind on. Saturday night from S to S. E , and continued during the night and the greater part of Sunday. The ’ wind blew with the greatest violence be -1 tween daylight and twelve o’clock Sun day, at wliitli lime it .commenced aba ting. Dmiuc that time u large utnulit i ol trees and lenres were hlwn itnwn, ,ui.l nilii rs wete • nmitferaliL damaged. In South Hroad-sirret tliete are at least sev enty five trees dnw n. In the other street tlnue are large numbers mure or less in jured, many of them very valuable as -bade trees anti ornaments to the cit\. The lious<-s on Cassrl Bow where mu -itlerablv injured by big. off of the tin on the roof; the lone of the wind being so violent as to tear it up (ruin the weather hoarding, and roll it up like parchment, causing the roofs to leak badly. The house on the corner of Lib erty and Bull streets, owned by Mr. J S.’Fay, received consideVolde damage, the tin being forced oil’ the rool in the s-jine manner. The slirds attached to die Cotton Prsses of Messrs. C. A. L. La.MaR and J. Baldwin, recieved slight damage, portions of [their? roofs having blown away. There are several other houses in the southern portion of the city in course of erection, slightly damaged. The steam er Gordon, Caul Brooks, which [eft on Sunday m.wfiVng at 5 o’clock, for diaries ton, after proceeding ns far as the Bir was obliged to return. No injury was done to die shipping in port, and the wind blow ing from such :i direction as to enable those vessels on the coast to make a good offing, we tire in lu pes they will escape without (Image. If the storm ex tended far into the interior, it must I axe oir*4jNH ii injury to die cotton crop*, it is exactly one year ago, to a day (24tii Aug. 1S50) More we muted e need just such a storm, which was attetodid with great damage lo die cotton crops in. Flor ida, Georgia ami n partof.South Caroli na. it is believed that the storm of |SSO, was not more violent here than that ofyes lerday night, curtailed the Crops ofGeor gia, at least one fifth, from w hat it othet wise would have been.-Salt Republican. Just ami Pointed Rebuke .• —The Green ville (S - C.) Patriot, refers to the biiliant celebration id’the Fourth r\f July, gotten up in L md.m liv Mr. J*c.ibody, and makes the follow ing telling comments: How different was that noble, proud American feeling which got uji th-s mag nificent celebration in a forign land, from that narrow-tractrd'rabid feeling which pervaded Soul li Caro inn in almost all her celebrations on die glorious Fourth. In London, the Americans, die liability of England, the wise and vir tuous of'all nations, ran asssmble to pay honor to a name and government which tile Secessionists of the South and the Abolitionists of the North are openly striving to dishonor and destroy. What madness, what infatuation ! These two extremes in politics, uniting to denounce the American Revolution and the Ameri can Government as a failure. We have rarelly seen, (says the New- Orleans Crescent,) a mure well-timgd and happy application. England—and the South Carolina malcontents have a sneaking kitulne.-s for dial laud of w’ealihv j lords and pour people— England, ilimugli | h>-r leading state-men and citiz ns, was honoring our national p .wit and giorv not the giorv “| S nob (’a ohu . was ci lebraling the liign niemmit-s of our na tinnnl birthday, forgetting, in her adtni ration of our present freedom, power and pioioi-", all that theiewa- in it humilia ting to her own pi id*—whilst upon our i -oil, in die sli idow of Fort Monlliie, anil I the historic memories which gather up on its walls, tl ere were dime met who pronounce our government a failure, and die American Revolution a magnificent prologue to a paltry failure. The can non of Fort Moultrie and Eulaw, and Camden, should have IhhJ jlieir living echo of the revolutionary battles in which they thundered, to drown the wliifte of treasonable disronteni that day, and sum mon back the noble and patriotic spirits of Marion, of Hayne, of Rmlege, of Greene, and all w ho ever fought or spoke tor South Carolina, freedom and the Un ion. C - The New Orleans Bulletin, in an article speculating upon what may he the character and extent of Forign inter ference in the expedition of the Cuban “Liberators,” concludes with this remark which we fully endorse: ‘lt is barely possible it (die Cuban af fair) may resolve itself into a national question, as it inevitably would, slioidd anv European power attempt to appro, priate Cuba to itself. England may loierlo-e her mortgage, but site can nev er obtain possession; we would resist the attempt to the la>l extremity; and on ibis point the United Stales as an undivid ed people, (the North vve are confident would not hold back in such a contest,) wc would be ready to meet ‘the world in arms. x m JmL ’ , the sout¥-¥estGeorgian oc;m:tssosepk. ; FI!ID \Y, AUGUST 29, 1851. FOR GOVERNOR, : II ON. II 0 WE'LL COBB OF CLARKE COUNTY. f J | roll ( on GUESS: JAMES JOHNSON, Os Muscogee. For Senator, W. N. L, C ROCKER, . Os Macon C mmy. i For Representative, WM. H. ROBINSON, WBiL Agents for the South-West Georgian^ Spencer Caldwell, Fori Gaines, AmS] Jeti'.r A. Hogue, mar Amcricujj/udo. f J. P. Gaei.ekn, da. Col. Wsi. T. Pkr.vins, (iuthbc.rt , do. G. CvitlTHF.lts, Esq. !^m bert, do. Gn.nr.HT M. Stokks, Slade, Lee co.do. J Dr. W ,m. M. jm’iiki.s, Dooly cn. do. M. L. Hqi.|n, liroaksvillr. Stew'rt do i A. A, Hi.Jkei.v, Griffin, Pike co. da. John U . feurmN, Griffin, do. I .1. TANARUS, May, Fran cite Me, do. A. J. iV inutms, Agent, for Sumter co. We would call the attention of onr siildfcrihcrs to our published Terms, and re- ttiosu who have not complied, to do so without delay, as our expenses are con stantly moving on, and without the means vve cannot lessen them. If payment is not made liy tile Ist of October, we will lie compelled to claim an additional Fifty pents on each subscriber then in arrears. * ;, r)t tt?*We have had the pleasure itfam uc quainntuce with Col. Ed. Floyd, of New G**, leans, who is now in Oglethorpe on business’* connected with the N. O. True Delta, De- Bow’s Review, and the Medical Journal. Tile True Della is one of the most valuable papeis published in the City of New Orleans, and the high reputation which it justly merits ’ is rapidly spreading. We would be glad to 1 see many of our citizens embrace the present J opportunity of subscribing for it. j 07* Rev. James R. McCarter of Ameti cus and Rev. Mi. McJVluiray will commence a meeting at this place to-night. They ex- | pect to organize a Church to-morrow if cir- i cumstances seem to justify. Preaching may ; be expected to continue till Sunday. Q7*Ogleihorpe is again free from sickness. The unfavorable report that is abroad in re gard to the health of the place need no longer deter strangers from coming here, for there is no danger. It has been the weather and not the situation of Oglethorpe, that has cre ated the ill health already experienced by onr citizens; Asa proof of that fact, as slum as there was a change in the weadler the ! sickness disappeared. Our IV.tl e-House me>i are making I extensive preparations for the reception of! Cotton. The Mo,, hunts are living in large | storks of Di v Goods and Groceries, for the i accomodation of those wlio may make this place llitir market.. We hope, at ail early day, to see onr streets crowded with Cotton •Waggons. ‘•Soiilli Carolina vs the Union.” Under this head will lie found a Commu nication on the first page of to-day’s paper, which first appeared in the “Georgia Jocmi.il iY. MrsseTiJjer, “Nov. (T, iSSO[ ft; was written by a citizen of Macon County, during the Canvass for the State Convention. The extract quoted from Mr. Holmes’ speech shows the commercial vagaries of the Dis union party. Whether Mr. Holmes, in re moving to California, whore he now resides, was actuated by despair, seeing no prospect of a Southern Confederacy; or whether lie was disgusted with Carolina, or whether lie is paving die way for southern institutions on the Pacific, yet remains to be disclosed. “Conservator” treats Ins political adversa ries w ith flunked respect. His analysis of the Palmetto character, haughty and ambi tious, tula or rum, is true to the life. We ask our leaders to jieruse the communication. It timchi s off the mock chivalry with merit ed sarcasm./ We are informed, that there is a case of the cholera in Griffin, Ga. From communications vve learn that the Hon. Howell Cobb is rapidly gaining ground in Middle Georgia, suc cess lo him 07* Wo shall lay before our readers next week a portion of Hon. Howell Cobb’s let ter. Owing to its length, we shall have to divide it and only publish half at a time. It is an able document,’one which entirely discomfits our political enemies, leaving them wholly at their wits end lo know how to attack it. As this letter was written in I answer toquestions propounded to Mr. Cobli j by a Disunion Committee, it was the duty of that committee to lay it before the public as -non as they received it, through the medium us their presses. Why did they not do tliisf; Simply because they knew it would correct die many falsehoods and eronemis impres sions they are endeavoring to force upon the minds of the people. The disunion presses, howevei, are endeavoring to cripple the ;t<-r, by taking up detached fragments anj i using every artifice to misconstrue ‘"itvis will avail tlu-in nothing, tire li Union are rleteimined that the have an uppurtnniiy at least Abe whole hIU r, just as Mr. ColdmH’nte it. CCT’ We copy the follovHjjg article from the editorial columns afsgZColumbns S entL ncl of the 21st inst. Mffipnvite all who have any doubt as of the McDonald party have bjtview, to give it a careful peru-’ sal. Tbri&enlinel is a zealous advocate jUiercaudl of McDonald and a kind of text [book for itis party, consequently vvliat he sbys is but the sentiments of his parly and their candidates. Well; here is the article: Tllic co-operation Party of south Carolina. “It appears to us that those who propose to wait for co-operation are pursuing a strange ly fatal and suicidal policy if they arc sincere in their professions of a desire to act at all. “Rat your own shoulders to the wheel, and then call oil Hercules,’ is an old adage, and one full of meaning and sense. They pro fess a desire for Southern Confederacy, but tin y wish to wait until other States are ready lo form it with them. Suppose no other State will move—will she continue to sub mit 1 We hope not. The only way in which there can be co operation is for somebody to begin. Wc re cieved in our revolutionary struggle no aid from France until vve had put our own shoul ders to the wheel. Suppose Massachusetts had postponed her resistance until site could have got the oilier colonies lo declare their independence. We should have been depen dencies of the British Government perhaps le this day. When Lopez, some months since attempted to revolutionize Cuba, every body said it was a great piece of folly. Let the of..£)ul>u, said they, begin themselves, and they will have plenty of help. So say vre now of Sojutii Carolina; let her begin, and she will soon have plenty of help. If the North should have the wisdom to let her alone, quietly ty manage her own affairs, why the South would go witlr her, as a mat ter of course, and so will thsrWest. But. if in their arrogance and folly,, they should at tempt to make war upon her, the whole South will rise up in her defence. The great evil that will result from the co-operationists of South Carolina, is thai they render their friends in other States powerless —they destroy the chance of co operation. As States, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, cannot co-operate without a majority to give them the control of the Government. Hence, although the Southern Rights party in Georgia may be in the min ority by only one hundred, they can do noth ing to bring about co-operation while South Carolina waits for it. Let South Carolina move, and she will not only have the South ern Rights party of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, to co-operate with her, but she will soon have the help of a ll of the States. Then if South Carolina wants co-opera iion: let her act. if she were out o* the Un ‘ ion to-day, we have no doubt that the South ! rrn Righis party would carry the elections | in October by an overwhelming majority.” In tli< outset of (lie above article, the ed j dot of the Sentinel upbraids South Carolina : because she does not secede at oner 1 . He wants a Southern Confederacy and he hopes Smith Carolina will not submit any longer, but come right out at once and proceed to establish it. In the second paragraph, he say, if South Caiolioa will only begin “she will soon have plenty of help.” • In liis third |iaragraph, you see, he tells South Carolina that Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi cannot co-operate without a ma jo, iy to give them the control of the Gov ernment. Give them tlie majority and the work is done—the Southern Confederacy is formed. Friends of the Union what think you of this? Here are their nefarious and unholy disigns to destroy the present Go vernment clearly set forth, and their plans for accomplishing its destruction fully con fessed. As soon as they have the majority, the present Government is to be overthrown. If McDonald is elected Governor and a majority of the Legislature is disunion or “Southern Rjghts” as they term themsel ves, South Carolina is in secede and Geor gia is to follow suit, then it is expected that Alabama and Mississipjii will bring up the rear. These four States are to from the Southern Confederecy, and then proceed to annex any other States that see proper to join them. This is all very nicely worked out] and from the Sentinels article the whole plan seems to rest on the Georgia election. Can it be possible that the voters of Geor gia will suffer this unwholy scheme to be car ; jied into effect! Surely there are but few who will lend their aid to this inglorious . stratagem to destroy the Union. Mr. Johnson at Aniericns. Messrs Editors :—The first discussion ; between Messrs. Johnson and Benning. ■ came off Inst Saturday in this place it w wA , a proud triumph for the cause , Union. w Mr. Benning, in opening sion, vainly attempted to ji amSf that he was on tlie Georgia Plutfigk although \ he admitted that he Bps on the Nashville Rlatlwan : the plat- Ini’m of Dii'JfPlf# GonviMitimt that non mated flßKiir.iid; arid especially on Convention, which This last only propo- JjjgSpto submit lo the Georgia Platform jgjFO LONG ns it remains the unreversed ■Bei i-uui of the State ! * , Mr. Benuintr urjged the points in open , and candid manner, and shuddered nnt to confess, that bad lie been in a Southern Congeress, be would have advocated a D/SSOLUTION OF THE UNION ! He declared the passage ol the Compro mise measures by Congress a sufficient cause for a dissolution of the Union of; this Government. Mr. Benning said his plan was, to strike out aR State lines, and make a consolidated Republic—contending that ‘consolidated power was the best—and cited New York as an instance of the 1 fact. Upon these admissions and argu ments, the Southern Rights men hung their heads, and several of them were converted, and came out in favor of the Constitutional Union party. Mr. Johnson’s reply was an eloquent and masterly defence of the positions oc cupied by the Union Party. Clearly did he mard out the inconsistency of bis op ponents who have been, or are now oc cupying so many different platforms: and demonstrated beyond all doubt that the main object of the Southern Rights par ty, in embarking on the Georgia platform was lo sink it—whereby a way might be opened to unfurl again the Banner of DISUN/ON. Mr. Johnson made it maifest by bis lucid arguments, that soold the UNION cause scceed, all would be peace and safety ; but should McDon ald and his friends succeed in the ap proaching contest that South Carolina would regard it as endorsing her Southern Rights notions, which are for w ar against the Government. Being tlms backed by Georgia, she would proceed |to ac complish her schemes of revolution, with the hope and prospect of carrying Geor gia with her. In conclusion, permit me to say, that the discussion just passed and the splenv did effort of Mr. Cobb on the 25th tilt., in which he manifested his devotion to the rights of the South and the integrity of the Government, have arroused the friends ol the Uuion to vigorous and concerted action. Verily, I say unto you, that a signal triumph awaits the friends of the Union. Fear not South- Western Georgia; she will speak in lan guage not to be mistaken. Yours, most respectfully. ** Mr. CALHOUN ON SECESSION. In die month of February, 1850 a debate took place in tho Senate of the United States between Messrs. Rives of Virginia and Cal houn of South Carolina, in regard to the Revenue Collection Bill, in which the doc trine of secession, or the right of a State to resume die powers granted to the General Government, jan e under consideration. Mr. Rives made a very powerful argument, in which he charged Mr. Calhoun with having avowed the rfoctiinn : Mr. Calhoun here said that lie had been misapprehended by the Senator from Vir ginia; that he had not said that the people, of a State might resume the powers which had been,granted to the General Government; but iSat they had - right to judge of the ex tent of those powers, and whether they had been exeeeded. Mr. Riv s still insisted that the Senator from Carolina hud avowed the doctrine of secession ’ Mr. Calhoun again explained: He had that if a Stale shoud resume the power# granted to the General Government, stkyh resumption would only be a breach of: compact, for which the State, as a commu nity, would be responsible, and not its citizens 1 injividuallv,— [Gates 4’ Seaton's Congres sioita) Debates, Vol. IX, Part 1, pp, 500, Tljtei is almost precisely the doctrine avow- j ed incite letter of Mr. Cobb. Mj - Calhoun did no) conled for die right of secession, even for just cause. He did not, as do tho mod ern secessionists, contend, that a State must be the sole judge. He recognized both tiie sovereignty of ,lbe States, nnd the equality of the Statps; He admitted the rights of the other States as well as the seceding State, to judge for themselves as to the extent of the grievances complained of, and as to whether the breach of the compact was justi fiable or not. He goes further. With Mr. Cobb he de’ dares that the Slate seceding for just cause would be subject to international liabilities: but to international liabilities only—in other words, that its citizens would not be punish*’ able for treason. This is precisely the doc- J Dins laid down in the letter of Mr. Cobb.— ! It is the doctrine of the fourth resolution of 1 the Georgia Platform. It is tho doctrino : which wc think must be recognized by every j man, and every party who does not wish to set up a “cowardly plea” to excuse himself! for waging war upon the Government of his I fathers.— Union Banner. COERCION AND few paragraphs from a recent addrjtspf Gen. WallaCx, of South Carolina, in The Richmond RepvbliwfßgjmT quo. the juu pose and views of the Secession leatU ipt offthal State, add* tne following per fltineni remarks, to which we call the at i tendon of those who wish to force Geor , gia and t'.te other Southern States to fol | low the Secession lead of Carotins : “With onr contemporary of the Balti more American, we do not see how the enforcement of the Constitution and the laws of the General Geverument in any Slate can be properly said to involve the destruction of the rights of the States, or any one ol them. We do not believe, however, that any coercion will be used, and that the United States will so far gratify Soot li Carolina as lo cross swords i with her chivalry on the battle field.— We are free to confess that we should de precate as a great calamity even the en forcement of the law’ at the point of the bayonet, but we must also declare that there is anothar kind of coercion which we regard as more tyrannical and cruel . —the process, virtually amounting to coercion, by which other slave States are to be compelled to co.-operale with South Carolina. If coercion, even when only the en forcement of the Constitution and the laws of our country, is abhorrent to the mind, much more It is repulsive and a ! bominable, w hen it is the iustrmenl of a lawless and despotic spirit, wielded by the lew to controle the many. If we should de|)lore>the shedding of a single drop of blood by federal bayonets in South Carolina, we should regard it as much more lamentable that South Caroli na dictation should involve all the other j Southern States, whose wishes and inter i ests are opjiosed to her measures, in a ; similar calamity, h is evident to all ’ that her chief reliance in the aproarhitig 1 crisis is,—not that the other Slates will voluntarily, and with the sanction of tttt ir . own will and inclinations come to —but that she will place herself in a po sition which “must, in the very nature of things,” ‘ compete them to co operation ? Their community of interests and the powerful sympathies arising from com mon institutions, are relied upon to coerce them into disunion nnd civil war, hut gainst it ? The other Southern State* are to be dragged out of the confederacy and into the battle field as reniorselesslx, and with as little regard to their wi-lies, as ever a Briti h press gang forced meti on board British ships ot War, or as even the despots of Europe compelled their people to fight their vile battle* of tuubu tion and interest. Such coercion as this will he regarded wififh universal abhorrence by all the other southern States, The whole course of Car olina is most conrempttinns in them. It indicates that she attune of all the several Slates is a safe guardian of Sombero honor, and that, if they will not agreo with her views, and voluntarily join her banner she will place them in a position by which they will be compelled to give up their nationality; to relinquish their fields to desolation, their sons to slaughter and their households to ruin; to surrender their past glory and their future hopes in the American Union ; to follow South Carolina to the field, and yielding tooth ers the States, retain only for themselves the Stripes, fit emblems of their bondage to an aspiring oligarchy. /t is well that the politicians of South j Carolina have so explicitly avowed their I aims and purposes. Tb it avowal has defeated their objects. The people of the other slave States are as proud, reso lute and patriotic as South Carolina.— They will not brook compulsion from j any power.—Odious as is the General I Government in Carolinas eyes, it may at least be said that it has never exhibited such tyranny anti oppression as that con i lemplated by the Palmetto Slate. Cott i templuted, we say—but it will never be ! submitted to for any wrong yet suffered iby the South from the Union! South ! Carolina may secede; she may go; but, | she will be long solitary and alone, ere : the Southern States will he compelled to leave the light of their ancient con stela | tion, and follow a will-0.-the.wisp into the | depths of a morass. When they do leave it, they will leave on account of future wrongs; they will lesve of their own free-will; they leave in a Spartan phalanx, shoulder to shoulder, and with Virginia, ; jlje veteran of the Revolution at the head. DIFFICULTIES OF SECESSION, If one tftfj'tign State has a right to secede at pleasure from the Union so has another! All the new or old, are co-equal sovereignties. According ly, Florida, for which Uncle Sam gave five millions of dollars, Louisiana, for which he gave fifteen rrlUlions, and Cali fornia, New Mexico, &c.L for which one hundred millions and more have been I P a 'd by the old gentleman, may each and every one, to-morrow, secede from j the confederacy, set up house on their own hook, and cheat the Uinted States j out of the whole amount! Again, Louis i *®na may close up the Mississippi river 1 against all the Western States, and no ] one has a right lo complain of the rank,